Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
The Neural Archive is a repository of publications collected by us during the years. Browse our collection here.
Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
iDial turns iPhones retro – coin-operated »
iDial, software to use the latest phone as it used to be before the keyboards.
(tags: software mobile art hacking)
CD – The Helen Scarsdale Agency
A crepuscular and minimalist project focused on the effects produced by natural sounds on human beings and on the perception of time and space, →
BARCODE PLANTAGE
Amazing bezier curve-based graphics based on barcode data
(tags: art video visual)
Japanese media art unit Exonemo’s latest work focuses on the differences between two worlds – the real, physical and our increasingly information-based, virtual. Citations of doubt in the real world itself among the two →
CD – Mego
The sonorities, on the whole very invasive and digital, as well as the crackles, drones, intermittences, fluxes and skipping frequencies, together with other refined forms of →
Kurt Cobain’s suicide letter VS. Google AdSense
Cory Arcangel’s style in comparative (software) literature.
(tags: art music hacking literature software net)
Facebook ‘dipping’ craze irks pool owners – Telegraph
Exploiting Google Earth revealing pools on the map for illegal parties
(tags: hacking mobile software net)
Kaspersky Lab reports a new and dangerous blackmailing virus
After Gpcode.ak encrypts files on the victim machine it adds ._CRYPT to the extension of the newly-created encrypted files and places a text file named !_READ_ME_!.txt in the same folder. In the →
The Cloud
An organic sculptural landmark that responds to human interaction and expresses context awareness using hundreds of sensors and over 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers
(tags: art media)
The “Real Snail Mail” project by Paul Smith and Vicky Isley (of the art sna design team, Boredom Research in the UK) is an attempt to create a metaphoric truth of what →
book – Continuum International Publishing Group – ISBN13: 9780826418456
One of the finest and not yet celebrated sound art artist and writer, Brandon Labelle is also a prolific producer with his own →
WebCamTalk 1.0 Series
WebCamTalk 1.0 is a guest speaker series designed to invite dialogue and the sharing of ideas with
some twenty artists, experienced new-media educators and technologists.
(tags: hacking media net video)
BBC NEWS | Technology | ‘Oldest’ computer music unveiled
A simple melody from a Ferranti Mark 1 in 1951.
(tags: music sound preservation)
CD – Graphorrhea
Different electronic experiences converging into a single ‘ensemble’, a project wanted by Andrey Kiritchenko, Jeff Surak and Jonas Lindgren (then substituted by Dmytro Fedorenko and Tobias Åström), all of them →
The “Heart Chamber Orchestra“, performed by 12 classical musicians and the artist team of TERMINALBEACH, consists of a computer-based composition and real-time data visualization show controlled by the performer’s heartbeats. While playing, →
